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February 1, 2013 dave Education, 0
It has been a while since I commented about a post from Walt Gardner in EdWeek. This post from today was just too classic Walt for me to ignore. Over the past two years, 10 states have given letter grades to schools in a process that reformers believe is long overdue. The justification is to give [...]
bureaucracy, reform, teacher unions, walt gardner
December 27, 2012 dave Education, Politics
Last week, California Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson told the media that his office had been told by the US Department of Education that the state wouldn’t be receiving a No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waiver even though 33 other states have already received them. States are anxious to get waivers from the requirements [...]
bureaucracy, CDE, ESEA, NCLB, reform, State Board of Education, testing
October 12, 2012 dave Education
The Academic Performance Index (API) is so difficult for anyone to understand, I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that the Los Angeles Times piece on California Department of Education (CDE)’s recent release of the 2012 “Growth” API scores had an error. The API rates schools on a scale of 200 to 1,000 points, the [...]
bureaucracy, CDE, ESEA, NCLB, testing
June 14, 2012 dave Education, Politics
In general, teachers are great people. No one becomes a school teacher for the great pay, comfortable work environment and respect. Teachers want their students to be successful. Unfortunately, public teacher union leaders no longer share their member’s goals. Like any large, powerful organization, teachers unions lose track of their noble goals and become all [...]
bureaucracy, reform, teacher unions
February 15, 2012 dave Education, Irony, Politics
I thought this Carolina Journal story was a great example of how far the cafeteria police will go if no one stops them. A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious. The girl’s turkey [...]
bureaucracy, irony, school lunch
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